Tony Bennett gets two birthday parties this year. The singer, who celebrated his 80th birthday Aug.3, will party again in November. The Nov. 9 gala-birthday party will raise money for actor Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Camps for sick children.

Mary-Kate Olsen, 18, is starting fresh. The college freshman and her boyfriend of nine months, David Katzenberg, 21, have split up, People reports. The couple broke up two weeks ago, People reports, as each was preparing to move from L.A. to the East Coast. Katzenberg is a student at Boston University. Mary-Kate and twin sister Ashley started classes this week at New York University.

The so-called "Willamette Meteorite," the largest ever found in the U.S., went on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. But the rock's discoverer, Ellis Hughes, died broke and forgotten. Fran Soder has spent the last two years trying to regain recognition for Hughes and the meteorite, which museum curators consider the most important of its kind.

Most New York City visitors and residents alike can agree on New York's status as an historic city. A crown jewel of colonial America that was purchased by Peter Minuit from natives for goods valued at about $600, the island of Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs of the Bronx, Staten Island, Queens and Brooklyn have grown to become one of the most important cities in the country and the world. Although New York City's present-day significance as a center for media, finance and the arts is widely accepted, its role in history is less discussed but just as relevant, if not more fascinating.